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Punjab Government has accorded approval to the project of city crime management, traffic regulatory management and emergency service management for improving local policing and to control street crime across the province. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is much inspired from the British and Turkish infrastructure and governance. So the experts will be called from there to complete the project successfully. This was disclosed by Minister for Environment Protection Colonel Shuja Khanzada (Retd), while presiding over a meeting of Police Reforms Committee at Lahore. He said that a command and control room will be established to monitor

Pakistan: Khattak Calls for Measures to End Shortage of Doctors, Paramedics

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has directed the concerned authorities to take necessary measures on war footings to make up the deficiencies of doctors, nurses, other paramedical staff, medicines and medical equipments in public sector hospitals and to work on the establishments of model emergencies in these health services outlets.
He has also directed the quarters concerned to end the practice of the transfers of teachers in government schools and to evolve such a mechanism in which a teacher will be appointed in a school, promoted on the basis of better performance and will not be transferred to any other school th

Pakistan: Ministry Orders Snakebite Vaccine on Emergency Basis

Islamabad: The ministry of national health services, regulations and co-ordination on July 25 Thursday announced to expedite production of anti-snake vaccine and pledged to supply the same to the country’s hospitals by September this year. According to a spokesman of the ministry, the decision was taken in response to a news item published in The News on July 24 Wednesday, which stated that NIH is supplying ineffective non-registered anti-snake vaccine threatening the lives of thousands of snakebite victims.
The spokesman said the existing trivalent vaccine (which does not cure victims of the Krait species of snakes) will also be regis

Pakistan: Rescuers Alerted on the Occasion of Youm-e-Shahadat of Hazrat Ali

Lahore: Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer has directed all the district emergency officers (DEOs) to ensure appropriate cover on the occasion of Youm-e-Shahadat of Hazrat Ali (RA) in a meeting at Rescue 1122 Headquarters.
The Rescue 1122 DG was briefed that the service had devised a comprehensive contingency strategy to provide efficient pre-hospital emergency medical cover to the processions’ participants. He was told that rescue posts at Imam bargahs had been established. The DG was informed that the Punjab Emergency Service was providing emergency cover to the citizens and had succe

Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) government has decided to establish a 10-storey emergency center and purchase special helicopter to provide relief to the masses in case of any natural disaster.KPK government has made a significant move in natural disaster management by initiating work on construction of modern style 10-storey emergency center and purchasing rescue helicopter for rapid action force.
The finance minister said that modern equipment will be installed in the emergency center and special training will be provided to the special rescue teams for specialising in facilitating the victims of natural disasters.